Tale Of Two Cities Figurative Language Essay

A Tale of Two Cities is a book by Charles Dickens. It was written in 1859. Dickens chose to publish the book in separate parts. Those separate parts were all weekly published in his own journal called All The Year Round. It became extremely popular. People read his work and loved it. Every week, they anxiously awaited the next part of his book. Interestingly and very much unlike other famous writers today, he was already a prominent writer. People already adored his work. Therefore, it is no surprise his new book was a big hit. Now, years later, his work is one of the most taught novels in schools. A Tale of Two Cities is filled with figurative language, literary elements, and themes that make it a significant work amongst all of Dickens’s literature. “The novel opens in 1775, prior to both American and French Revolutions” (Tale 1). It is during a time that people do not understand a revolution. They were being ruled by a monarchy. They did not have the idea that regular people should be a part of government because no one had ever tried it. “Both France’s proximity to England and America’s political relationship with England mean that ideas about revolutions, in either locations, impacted England” (Tale 1). Even across countries, ideas pass on like the plague. The novel focuses on …show more content…
“All his other tales have been tales of one city” (Two 1). It is important because this is very different from his other works. Dickens was born rich and among religious people. This has a huge impact on the novel and its characters. Dickens is at once tragic and comic in his novel. Throughout the novel, he wants to point he wants civilization to spread. “If there is anything that Dickens would have definitely hate it is that general treatment of nature as a dramatic spectacle” (Two 1). It is the way he predicted that society acts the way that it does even